How to Breed Clownfish at Home: A Beginner's Guide
Clownfish are the easiest marine fish to breed at home. They pair up reliably, spawn predictably, and the fry can be raised...
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Coral Feeding Guide: When Live Food Beats Frozen and Powders
Coral feeding is one of those hobby topics where everyone has an opinion and most of them contradict each other. Some reefers swear by powders. Some target-feed every LPS individually. Some just trust the lights and zooxanthellae. The...
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16 articlesBest Live Foods for Pipefish, Seahorses and Other Picky Reef Eaters
Some marine fish are flat-out impossible to feed without live food. Pipefish, seahorses, mandarin dragonettes, scooter blennies, and several wrasses all share...
Read morePhytoplankton 101 for Reef-Keepers: What It Is and Why You Need It
If you've spent any time around reef-keepers, you've heard someone go on about phytoplankton. It's hyped, often confused with macroalgae or dinoflagellates,...
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A refugium is the single best upgrade most reef-keepers can add to their tank. Done right, it's a copepod factory, a nutrient...
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Mandarin Dragonettes: Why They Need Live Food (And How to Keep Them Alive)
The green mandarin dragonette (Synchiropus splendidus) is one of the most beautiful fish you can put in a reef tank. It's also...
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How to Culture Tetraselmis: A Green Powerhouse for Your Reef
Tetraselmis is a vibrant green flagellated microalga loaded with essential fatty acids, amino acids, and phytonutrients. It's highly nutritious for copepods, rotifers,...
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What Is Zooplankton?
Zooplankton are tiny drifting animals found in every marine environment, and they're absolutely vital to a healthy reef. Unlike phytoplankton, which produce...
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How to Culture Nannochloropsis (Nanno) Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton is the foundation of every live food chain in reef tanks. It feeds copepods, rotifers, clams, corals, and filter feeders. Culturing...
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How to Culture Copepods
Copepods are one of the most valuable live foods in a reef aquarium. They're packed with nutrients, perfect for finicky fish and...
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Help, my culture keeps crashing!
Absolutely terrible feeling, isn't it. Everything felt right, but it never went anywhere. Here at Aquaculture Kings, we're all about sharing knowledge....
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Best Times to Dose Copepods in Your Reef Tank
How to dose copepods without killing them Dosing copepods into your reef isn't complicated, but doing it wrong kills them off before...
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